Talk:Something There

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I already put this in the B&B talk page, but reading it in full, there's actually some great stuff for Something There:

"And we thought that once Beast had saved Belle’s life, that that was enough to earn this dance. This moment with her falling in love.  And so we had the – the story went that way.  And when we got to this sequence where Beast and Belle dance, which was just in the storyboard at the time, we had a screening. And there was a feeling like this movie is not working.  I don’t believe.  We haven’t earned this moment for Belle and Beast to fall in love.  It feels like we’re forcing it.  Feels like the artist’s hand is sort of making people believe this, trying desperately, but it’s not working.  What is it? And at that point Howard Ashman came in with this song that I think really turned the corner for us.  The “Something There” song.  And I had always felt that Robby Benson should have a moment in this movie where he could actually sing.  The guy’s got a great voice.  A baritone base voice. It’s very soft and gentle. And so this song, “There’s Something There” was written. And what was wonderful is it was a very small little thing that the movie turned on. You know Beast giving Belle the library. It was – that was the thing that he had noticed what was special to this girl, and he gave her this gift. And it was really cool just to see how the story, you suddenly believed it after that. And before that song was written, you didn’t."

"But something was missing. You didn’t really feel like you earned this dance.  And at that point, Howard Ashman, who had really created the tent poles for our story, realized that we were missing an extremely important tent pole, and he wrote a song called something – “There’s Something There,” this moment where Beast gives Belle the library. And it was so subtle and gentle of a thing that it had escaped us, that true love isn’t just like Beast going and battling the wolves seemed like, “OK, well that’s the dramatic indication of his love for her.”  But it was him noticing how this girl loved to read and that he presents her with the library.  And it was the little things that just – like a flower growing, that’s what that song was about. And as soon as that was written, we knew the movie was going to work.  Until that point, it just – and that happened pretty – very late, that last year, actually, in production. So we didn’t know that it was going to work until that point."

--Coin945 (talk) 17:56, 3 June 2015 (UTC)